First things first, I’m a movie buff…No, actually, I’m a movie snob.job
I love films but I can’t stand watching poorly made or average flicks.
Too many times I’m in the video store, and for the life of me, I can’t decide what to get.
There are WAY too many crappy movies out there to waste my time on.
So here is a list of great films that are very fulfilling and definitely worth a look.
Keep in mind, if you have seen any of the titles below and you did NOT like them, try giving them another look.
If you don’t like any of them, I’ll pay for your rental.
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Suspense/Thriller/Mystery/Crime
12 Monkeys
Bank Job, The
Batman
Beach, The
Before the Devil Knows Your Dead
Being John Malkovitch
Breakdown
Bully
Children of Men
Citizen X
Clockwork Orange, A
Dark Knight, The
Dead Man's Shoes
Death Proof
Dirty Pretty Things
Dog Day Afternoon
Eastern Promises
Fargo
Fear
Felon
Fight Club
Game, The
Gummo
Hard Candy
Heat
Hoax, The
Interview with the Assassin
Joy Ride
JCVD
Last King of Scotland, The
Leon: The Professional
Limey, The
Marathon Man
Misery
Night of the Hunter, The
No Country for Old Men
Prestige, The
Primal Fear
Requiem for a Dream
Simple Plan, A
Sin City
Sexy Beast
Straw Dogs
Summer of Sam
Usual Suspects
Taken
Taxi Driver
Transsiberian
Traffic
Treed Murray
V For Vendetta
Zero Day
Comedy
About A Boy
After Hours
An Evening with Kevin Smith
Austin Powers I
Back to the Future
Beverly Hills Cop
Big
Big Lebowski, The
Billy Madison
Borat
Breakfast Club, The
Clerks I & II
Coming To America
Cool Runnings
Don't Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Dumb and Dumber
Election
Fear of a Black Hat
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Ghost World
Good Morning Vietnam
Happiness
Happy Gilmore
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
Hot Fuzz
Hudsucker Proxy, The
Idiocracy
It’s All Gone Pete Tong
Juno
Kindergarten Cop
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Little Miss Sunshine
Mean Girls
Meet the Parents
Mrs. Doubtfire
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Office Space
Old School
Orgazmo
Outsourced
Party, The
Pleasantville
Porky’s
Role Models
Rushmore
School of Rock
Sex Drive
Stranger than Fiction
Squid and the Whale, The
Superbad
Super Troopers
Swimming with Sharks
Swingers
Thank-You for Smoking
There's Something About Mary
Trading Places
Waiting…
Wedding Singer, The
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Zoolander
Drama
12 Angry Men
25th Hour
Alive
American Beauty
American History X
American Me
Awakenings
Baadasssss!
Basketball Diaries, The
Big Fish
Boogie Nights
Boy A
Boys Don’t Cry
Braveheart
Bronx Tale, A
Colour Purple, The
Crimson Tide
Dead Poets Society
Dear Frankie
Dominick and Eugene
Do the Right Thing
Empire of the Sun
Exotica
Full Metal Jacket
Gladiator
Godfather I, II
GoodFellas
Good Girl, The
He Got Game
House of Sand and Fog
Hustle and Flow
In the Company of Men
It’s A Wonderful Life
Jungle Fever
Karate Kid, The
La Bamba
Last of the Mohicans, The
Lean on Me
Legend of 1900, The
Legends of the Fall
Magnolia
Menace II Society
Million Dollar Baby
Millions
Mississippi Burning
Mysterious Skin
Namesake, The
Pump Up the Volume
Rain Man
Ray
Return to Paradise
Revolutionary Road
Schindler’s List
Shawshank Redemption, The
Slumdog Millionaire
Stand By Me
Talk Radio
Thelma and Louise
This Is England
This Boy’s Life
Transamerica
Truman Show, The
Upside of Anger, The
Vanilla Sky
Visitor, The
Walk the Line
Wrestler, The
Woodsman, The
Horror/Science-Fiction/Supernatural
Abyss, The
Bubba Ho-Tep
Butterfly Effect, The
Candyman
Changeling, The (Original)
Cube
Dead Zone, The
Devil's Advocate, The
Donnie Darko
Don't Look Now
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Eden Lake
Equilibrium
Event Horizon
Exorcist, The I, III
Fall, The
Final Destination
Frailty
Freaks
Frequency
Fountain, The
From Dusk till Dawn
Gattaca
Halloween
Jaws
Jacob’s Ladder
Jeepers Creepers
Lady in White
Lost Boys, The
Matrix, The
May
Minority Report
My Little Eye
Pet Semetery
Poltergeist
Re-Animator
Return of the Living Dead
Session 9
Seven
Shining, The
Silence of the Lambs, The
Sixth Sense, The
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Thing, The
Unbreakable
Witches, The
Romance
Before Sunrise (original)
Before Sunset (sequel)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Garden State
Girl Next Door, The
Princess Bride, The
Lost in Translation
Love Actually
Once
Secretary
True Romance
Foreign
2046 (Chinese)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romanian)
Amelie (French)
Amores Perros (Spanish)
Audition (Japanese)
Battle Royale (Japanese)
Best of Youth, The (Italian)
Bicycle Thief, The (Italian)
Children of Heaven (Iranian)
Cinema Paradiso (Theatrical Version Only) (Italian)
City of God (Brazilian Portuguese)
City of Lost Children (French)
C.R.A.Z.Y. (French)
Delicatessen (French)
Devil's Backbone, The (Spanish)
Diabolique (French)
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (French)
Experiment, The (German)
Fat Girl (French)
High Tension (AKA Switchblade Romance, AKA Haute Tension) (French)
Ichi the Killer (Japanese)
I’m Not Scared (Italian)
Infernal Affairs (Chinese)
Lady Vengeance (Korean)
Last Kiss (Italian)
Life is Beautiful (Italian)
Maria Full of Grace (Spanish)
Mediterraneo (Italian)
Motorcycle Diaries, The (Spanish)
No Man’s Land (Slovenian)
Nowhere in Africa (German)
OldBoy (Korean)
Orphanage, The (Spanish)
Pan's Labyrinth (Spanish)
Paradise Now (Arabic)
Paris Je T'Aime (French)
Postino, Il (Italian)
[Rec] (Spanish)
Sea Inside, The (Spanish)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Korean)
Talk To Her (Spanish)
Tell No One (French)
Tsotsi (Afrikaans)
Vanishing, The (Dutch/French)
Visitor Q (Japanese)
Water (Indian)
Documentary
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Baraka
Bigger, Faster, Stronger
Bowling for Columbine
Control Room, The
Corporation, The
Dave Chapelle’s Block Party
Deliver Us From Evil
Fog of War, The
Grizzly Man
Hell House
Imagine: John Lennon
Inside Deep Throat
Man on Wire
March of the Penguins
Microcosmos
Mr. Death: The Rise & Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
One Day in September
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Planet B-Boy
Taxi to the Dark Side
Young At Heart
Animation
Beauty and the Best, The
Little Mermaid, The
Lion King, The
Monsters Inc
Nightmare Before Christmas, The
Spirited Away
Shrek I,II
Triplets of Belleville, The
Wall-E
TV Series
Band of Brothers
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dexter
Errol Morris: First Person
Family Guy
Jim Henson’s The Storyteller
Nip/Tuck (Season 1-2)
Office, The (UK/USA)
Seinfeld
Simpsons , The
Six Feet Under
South Park (Season 5+)
Wonder Years, The